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Saturday, September 28, 2013

Now may the God of
peace Himself sanctify you completely.
And may your spirit, soul and body be kept sound and blameless for the
coming of our Lord Jesus Christ. He who
calls you is faithful, who also will do it.
Brothers, pray for us also. 1
Thessalonians 5:23-25

We are leaving. We
are leaving, and we are a leaving soon!
A month ago I wrote to you about the exciting survey trip I took in
August. The loose ends hadn’t been tied
up, but it looked like things were coming together . . . well now they have!

When
I wrote to you last month we were $16,000 short of what we need for all of our
startup costs. After I sent that update,
I realized that there was another $3,000 in travel that I didn’t factor into
that total, so our need was actually around $19,000. As I sit here and write this letter, our
remaining need is just under $12,000.
That means in the last 31 days God has provided over $7,000 towards our
need!

Some
of you have been faithfully downloading and praying through the prayer
calendars that we send out every month.
On those prayer guides, I always ask people to pray that God would not
only provide the money that we need for a vehicle, but that He would also
provide a vehicle for us to buy. Well,
we know you have been praying because
God has definitely provided.

It is hard to find a good used vehicle in South Sudan
because having the vehicle in South Sudan means excessive wear. When I was in Lohutok last month I met
someone from Diguna, a German organization that is working nearby, and they
were extremely helpful with this. We
couldn’t afford a new LandCruiser, which costs around $50,000, but through
these new connections we were able to find a used LandCruiser in Johannesburg. Since the vehicle is from the city it is in
much better condition, and it can be flown to Kenya and driven up to Lohutok
all for about $14,000. That’s 1/3 the
cost of a brand new vehicle in South Sudan!
Since we still need about $12,000 for our startup costs, that means we
have enough to pay for our travel, the house, and all of our other startup
needs, but we still need to raise most of the money we need for the
vehicle. Will you pray with us for
this? We have a few more weekends of
churches to visit and then we are done, which is exciting, but we really need a
vehicle.

Speaking
of “a few more weeks,” we bought our tickets!
We got the final approval from Pioneers to buy our plane tickets, so we
are leaving for South Sudan on November 13th. Thank you all so much for your continued
prayer and support!